John the Ripper Alternatives

John the Ripper is described as 'Fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to John the Ripper for Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD. The best John the Ripper alternative is Kon-Boot. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ophcrack or hashcat. Other great apps like John the Ripper are Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Trinity Rescue Kit, BarsWF and hashcat-gui.

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John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS....

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John the Ripper alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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  1. GoCrack icon

    GoCrack

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    GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

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  2. MDCrack

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    MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

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  3. Cryptohaze

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    A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash brute forcing tool with support for many hash types including MD5, SHA1, LM, NTLM, and lots more!

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.31, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Cryptohaze Features

    1.  Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration

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